Hi, I am using outlook 2011 for Mac and I have a significant issue that I can't seem to find a solution for.

I accidentally moved, rater than copied, a bunch of emails so that they could be backed up. I did not move the database file just the messages (messages/OT/OB/OM). When I realized the problem I moved the file back in but it did not recognize them.

When I did a restore I was able to recover many older emails from 2011 and 2012 and a very small number from 2013 (only sent items for some reason). However I am unable to access most of the emails in the folder. I used the Microsoft database utility several times and always had the same result.

Bottom line is I have all the files and I can even read the subject lines in finder but I am unable to open these emails. What can I do to make outlook read these emails? Any help would be greatly appreciated.